Iupati determined to rebound from bad outing in Seattle: ‘It’s a lesson learned’

Mike Iupati sat through the roughest film sessions of his 49ers career Monday and Tuesday, replaying the devastation from a 29-3 loss to the host Seattle Seahawks.

No play looked worse for the 49ers’ left guard than a third-quarter snap in which Red Bryant upended Iupati, who landed on his keister 5 yards behind the line of scrimmage. It was a first-of-a-kind sight.

The film room provided answers: “I was too high. I didn’t punch. I wasn’t on my game.”

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Neither were his teammates. The 49ers’ power run game vanished, as Frank Gore had only 16 yards on nine carries. The pass protection frequently broke down, the receivers rarely broke free and quarterback Colin Kaepernick passed for 127 yards with three interceptions and a lost fumble.

Two snaps after that play against Bryant – where Kaepernick escaped pressure and found Bruce Miller for a 17-yard completion – Iupati then committed a false-start penalty.

“The 12th Man’s no joke,” Iupati said of Seattle’s crowd that set a Guinness World Record for loudest stadium roar.

“And, honestly, I played (crappy),” Iupati continued. “We have a great group of offensive linemen. Offense takes 11 guys doing their job, and if one doesn’t … It’s a lesson learned.”

Iupati plans to focus on his fundamentals and technique before the 49ers (1-1) host the Indianapolis Colts (1-1) on Sunday. The Colts defense includes three ex-49ers: defensive tackle Ricky Jean Francois, nose tackle Aubrayo Franklin and outside linebacker Cam Johnson. Fili Moala, who backs up Franklin, went to Western High School-Anaheim with Iupati.

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We’re slowly learning what kind of a coach Harbaugh really is – and it is not what most of us hoped. The coaches and the team, but primarily the coaches need to WAKE UP. They went into the Seattle game already beaten.

Frankie

Iupati gonna rip off someones arms n beat em wit em ha ha!

latopian

Good stuff & good to hear Iupati (unlike Staley) own it. He’ll have his hands full w/Franklin, RJF. Goodwin too.

Spitblood

Iupati comes out selling. I’m not buying it. Iupati is part of the problem. He’s a power run component of this offense that needs to be dumped. The only way we truly learn from this is for Jim Harbaugh to dump his offensive philosophy of run the ball first…. especially with a talent like Colin Kaepernick.

~ Jim Harbaugh: The only guy on the field who can hold Colin Kaepernick to under 200 yards passing ~

Niner

Truthfully I’m beginning to think politics is affecting football. What happened to ” they kicked our azzes”? Now it’s lame excuses and more unfulfilled promises. So you beat the ok teams of the league and lose to the tough ones ( see ny giants seattlex2, Vikings). That makes us like the hundreds of teams that every year are the most ” talented” but can’t win the sb. So we want to be the new buffalo bills? People may put down gore, but he seems to be the only one embarrassed by this pathetic display. You can lose, but how can you not get up for your division rival on nationwide tv that humiliated you last year? The so called super ol got its butt kicked by 3 unknown dl. In the olden days of Eddie d and Walsh, heads would roll. Seems like those days are gone, nw it’s ” no big thing, lesson learned. Pitiful.

Stan

Baalke has made some questionable personnel decisions the past couple of years. For a team that is so close to winning a Championship, the Niners should be plugging holes now instead of playing for the future. This whole game of stockpiling draft picks and drafting players only to put them on IR is troublesome. Seattle realized what a great team they had heading into this season, so instead of drafting a bunch of players who won’t contribute this season, they went after quality instead of quantity. Granted, Percy Harvin got hurt, but he’ll be back and they’ll be playing with house money. While they had arguably their greatest draft in team history in 2012, the Niners had possibly their worse. As an encore, the Niners went out and drafted three players for the future (Carradine, Dial and Lattimore), stockpiled more picks and, other than Eric Reid, drafted players who are basically role/backups at best.

In another head-scratching personnel decision, one of those draft picks from this past season, Nick Moody, was placed on IR with the possibility of return this season. That’s a huge move because now the Niners can no longer afford to have a player get hurt and stash him on IR without losing him for the season (see Ian Williams who should only be out three months).

MidwestNiner

The Niners NEED to get back to power running! That is the foundation of our team with Gore, Hunter and our O-line. We need to stop all this pistol formation and read option BS.

You don’t have a young qb like Colin go into a loud and hostile stadium and just throw the ball against the league’s best secondary especially when Crabtree is missing. That just wouldn’t make any sense.

As far as saying the Niners haven’t beaten any good teams over the last two years is just garbage. We have pretty much beaten all the good teams at least once in the last two years. Go back and check the results.

We got blown out one game by what could be the best team in the league at their house. The sky is not falling. It’s not the end of the world. Our season isn’t over!

Obother

He was right about the twelfth man. Crowd noise 131.8. Hearing damage 130db. 128.8 db is exactly twice as quit as 131.8 db. The place must have been a nightmare to hear plays in huddle not to mention very annoying. 100 if not 1000’s of fans woke up next day with ringing in ears if they didn’t wear ear plugs given at gate and many will have permanent hearing damage. I think the crowd totally put the 49ers off.

margucci

Whatever happened to long Bombs? Niner is right. I think somebas fastbas kyle williams should be let loose down the feild. I usually see colin overthrow the ball but when davis was loose down the field he underthrew it. Furthermore, during the weather suspencion seattle was studying plays andvthe niners were listening to music, wth?

Bryan Hobbs

It amazes me how negative people can be. It disgusts me that some people just want to rip on somebody.